The Command to Pamper the Husband - Chapter 209

Song Jin

She looked around and then glanced at her hands.

Was she herself again? Then didn’t that mean Shen Yue was…

Based on what happened in the Imperial Study just now, she might not have killed Emperor. Now that Shen Yue was back to being himself without any spiritual power, wouldn’t the Emperor want to kill him?

At the thought of Shen Yue’s death, Song Jin immediately stood up.

The Crown Prince pulled her back.

“What’s wrong? Feeling sorry for the Fourth Prince?”

“No, I can’t let him die for nothing. He died in my place.”

“His death isn’t worth lamenting.”

“He’s innocent, and he was an ally of my father.”

The Crown Prince smiled while holding Song Jin, “Maybe Song Dingzhong never really saw him as a true ally.”

Song Jin looked up at the Crown Prince.

The Crown Prince looked down at her with indulgent eyes.

“He is a prince of Zhao Kingdom. Long ago, when the Fourth Prince’s mother was held hostage in Zhao, they swapped their prince with him. Their plan was that he would one day take the throne, or at least cause chaos in our court.”

“Song Dingzhong always knew this. The only reason he cooperated with him was that they both wanted to overthrow the Emperor. But once they actually did, they would become enemies. The kingdom built by the previous Emperors would never allow him to wreak havoc.”

Song Jin was stunned.

She always knew Shen Yue’s identity was unusual, but she hadn’t expected it to be this unusual.

Then…

Forget it, if he dies, he dies.

If he didn’t die, more people would.

After all, patriotic feelings should sometimes overpower sympathy.

“What do we do now?” Song Jin sat back on the bed.

The Crown Prince didn’t let go and sat back down with her.

Wan Xi, observing this, reached out to pry the Crown Prince’s fingers off.

The Crown Prince…

The Crown Prince looked at Wan Xi.

Wan Xi straightened up, “Let go of my Miss! You two aren’t married yet, what is this!”

Song Jin…

Where did her Wan Xi get such confidence?

She dared to yell at the Fourth Prince in Shen Yue’s mansion and now yelled at the Crown Prince here.

A heroine’s aura, perhaps?

However, amidst Wan Xi’s scolding, the usually shameless Crown Prince actually let go.

He rubbed his nose, “Mm, Wan Xi is right, we should wait until we’re married.”

Song Jin…

Wan Xi…

Song Jin rolled her eyes at the Crown Prince, “Who’s marrying whom?”

The Crown Prince smiled at Song Jin, “I prefer you as yourself. Seeing you as him, I started to doubt my own orientation.”

Song Jin rolled her eyes again, pulling away from the Crown Prince, “Why didn’t you follow me into the palace just now?”

“If I had followed you, would I still be here with you now?”

“Armchair strategist, did you know I would switch back?”

“Mm, I knew.”

Song Jin looked at the Crown Prince, not joking, “How did you know?”

The Crown Prince smiled, “Didn’t you say that when you switched bodies, there was thunder in the sky? When you were taken away, there was thunder again, coinciding with the activation of the palace’s poison. I thought it might be an opportunity.”

“See, you were just guessing.”

The Crown Prince reached out to pinch Song Jin’s cheek, “Are you angry? Now it’s winter in the north, isn’t thunder unusual enough to indicate something? According to the plot structure, this is the critical setting for major events, called environmental foreshadowing.”

Song Jin…

The three elements of a novel: characters, plot, and setting?

As they spoke, the Crown Prince’s attendant reported from outside, “Your Highness, someone requests to see you.”

He handed over a jade pendant.

Upon seeing the pendant, Song Jin immediately stood up before the Crown Prince could react, “Is my father here?”

The jade pendant was identical to the one Yuan Bao had brought to her, which Song Dingzhong also had.

When Song Jin entered the capital, Song Dingzhong had told her that if someone came in his name, she should recognize the jade pendant, not the person.

After Song Jin spoke, the Crown Prince glanced at the pendant and stood up as well, “Where is he?”

The attendant replied, “In the outer hall.”

The Crown Prince took Song Jin’s hand and walked outside.

After passing through pavilions and corridors for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, they arrived at an outer hall.

In the bright light, Song Jin saw Song Dingzhong immediately.

Although she had transmigrated here, the original owner’s feelings for Song Dingzhong were within her. She herself also deeply missed him.

After all, he was her only relative in this world.

“Father!”

Song Jin lifted her dress and ran into the hall.

Song Dingzhong was clearly not expecting Song Jin to be there. Hearing her voice, he turned around in surprise, tears welling up in his eyes.

Song Jin hugged his arm, “Father, you’re finally here!”

Song Dingzhong, tears streaming down his face, patted Song Jin’s hand. Seeing his daughter in women’s clothing, it took him a while to calm down.

“Sorry to keep you waiting. It’s my fault.”

Song Jin clung to his arm, not letting go.

Song Dingzhong laughed, “Such a grown-up daughter, and not afraid of the Crown Prince teasing her.”

Then, he suddenly paused and looked at Song Jin in shock, “You switched back?”

Song Jin…

“Father!”

Song Dingzhong, smiling, patted her shoulder, “When did you switch back?”

“Just now.”

Song Jin recounted her recent perilous experience.

The Crown Prince’s fingers trembled as he listened.

He knew the Emperor had ill intentions towards Shen Yue, but he hadn’t expected it to be outright murderous.

Hearing Song Jin’s account, Song Dingzhong’s face darkened as he looked at the Crown Prince, “Is this how you kept your promise? I entrusted my child to you, and this is how you protect her?”

The Crown Prince…

He was speechless.

It was his fault.

The Crown Prince lowered his head.

Song Jin, not wanting her father to blame the Crown Prince, said, “It’s not his fault. Without him, I would have been burned to death by the Emperor after switching back.”

Hearing Song Jin’s defense, the Crown Prince’s eyes filled with deeper joy.

She cared for him.

Song Dingzhong glared at the Crown Prince.

Song Jin diverted the attention, “Father, who are these two?”

When they came in, the Crown Prince had seen three people standing behind Song Dingzhong.

One was Han Bo, whom he knew. The other two looked familiar, but he couldn’t place them.

Song Dingzhong patted Song Jin’s head, “These are the people you saved from Linglong Mountain.”

Song Jin…

Those wild men?

Technically, they were people Shen Yue had brought back.

But in the mansion, they had reacted strangely to her presence.

Looking at the two clean-faced individuals in front of her, Song Jin found it hard to connect them with the wild men from before.

“They were poisoned. The reason I came late was to detoxify them.”

The two stepped forward and bowed to Song Jin, “Princess.”

Song Jin…

Even though she knew her own identity, she still felt awkward and avoided their bows.